How can you upload an image to the Ancestry media gallery event?

Before I can link this media to Joseph’s death event on Ancestry, I must first upload the image to the gallery.

Navigate to your ancestor’s gallery.

Click, “Upload media.”

Drag and drop an image to the workspace.

Add a descriptive, but brief, title.

Choose “What kind of media is this?

Portrait

Place

Headstone

Document/Certificate

Other

Add a date

Add a location

Describe the image

Select the names of additional individuals to tag in the image.

For this handwritten note, I could have chosen the document or other option. There really isn’t any clear guidance, so make your best guess.

Once you have completed these steps, click “Done.”

How To Link Media to a Specific Event on Ancestry

Once you have a digital image in your Ancestry gallery, you can then link that media to a specific event on your Ancestry fact timeline.

Scroll to an event that is in a white box.

Hover over the box and find the word “Edit.”

Click “Edit.”

Edit the “Fact Details” if necessary.

Click on the “Media” option.

Scroll to the desired image to link to your event and press the “+” beside the option.

Ancestry will automatically save your changes. Then you can press the “x” to close this window.

How to Link Media to Life Events for Different People

What happens if you want to link the same image to different people? Let’s say you have a christening record that identifies a child and his parents? What if you have a marriage record that names a bride, groom, and additional relatives?

When you link media to a marriage event, it will appear in the bride and groom’s fact timeline. However, you have to create a custom event in order to have the image appear in the timeline for additional relatives.

In this video, I also walk you through the steps for adding a custom event and linking media to additional relatives.

Continue Learning About How to Research on Ancestry.com

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Devon Noel Lee is passionate about capturing and preserving family stories so no one alive today has to be researched, or forgotten, tomorrow. She has authored 6 how-to books, a memoir, two published family history biographies, and over 60 family scrapbooks. She's an enthusiastic speaker who energizes, encourages, and educates at the same time.

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Meet Devon Noel, Caleb, and Andy Lee. We help beginning and intermediate level genealogists understand DNA, climb their family trees, and write their ancestors' stories along the way. If family history isn't fun, you're doing it wrong.